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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1916
Page
6
Walter Prichard Faton contemplates quitting college teaching to buy a New England farm. He plans to rent it out and study agriculture rather than claim full knowledge, pondering whether he will become an earnest student or assume he knows it all.
The narrator leaves college after a failed farming plan, travels to Bentford, and buys a 30 acre farm once owned by Milt Noble. He meets his neighbor Bert Temple and farmer Mike Finn, secures workers, and plans to hire a housekeeper Nora. He budgets income and contemplates selling produce and joining a golf club to support his venture.
Bert and I tour my new dwelling with Hard Cider Howard. We plan to join two rooms into one and add a glass door to a veranda. Work includes removing plaster and adjusting the chimney while preserving solid oak framing.
A professor calls his farm a plant and expects to earn his living. The first day’s work at the plant may reveal whether this plan yields the five dollars hoped.
Report notes ongoing elephant roundups in India with multiple incidents. At Sukna nine elephants captured, one refused to eat. In Chalsa six elephants moved after a tusker charged and killed a mahout. A tusker disrupted a camping ground in Tendu forest, while another herd briefly seized the Patigur i Ramshahi branch line, damaging a locomotive before being thrown clear.
In a plant test a water supply pump system uses gas and air ignited directly against water to drive the pumping action. The apparatus operates as part of a waterworks experiment in preparation for London.
The Forest Service organized 103 national forests across six districts with detailed state coverage. On July 1 1915 the total force numbered 3875, including 3225 on forests and 650 in administrative roles. Protective work employed 2310, listing forest rangers 339 assistant rangers 861 forest guards 1049 and one game warden. The protective ratio was one man per 80000 acres.
The Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations in New York City releases its third annual report for the year ending April 30. It shows 574 jobs filled, up from 415 and 308 in prior years, with over half of the placements college trained. Women serve as secretaries, librarians, suffrage workers, and in war relief, writing, sales, or police work, while several hundred positions remain, including five policewomen and translators.
Rice boosts nutrition and cuts costs when added to various meats. Suggestions include rice with chicken fricassee and lamb or mutton stews, croquettes, and round steak baked with seasoned rice and tomatoes. Includes muddled steps for stews and a border of steamed rice.
As seasons advance, clear the cellar of winter rubbish after the furnace fire dies. Ensure chimneys and fireplaces are ready for outdoor work. Spring days favor open fires and fresh salads for luncheon. Plan summer vacations by sending for hotel catalogs and pamphlets.
A simple banana pudding layers bread slices with fresh bananas in a greased dish. An egg batter with sugar and hot milk is poured over, baked about twenty minutes, and finished with a dusting of nutmeg and powdered sugar.
A simple baked omelet combines macaroni with eggs butter flour cream or milk cheese and seasonings. Cook eggs with flour add milk and macaroni then bake in a hot dish until set and cheese tops the surface.
One pound potatoes boiled and mashed with one ounce butter one teaspoon milk one egg salt and cayenne pepper two teaspoonfuls chopped parsley Add butter milk egg and parsley to the mashed potatoes turn out roll thin divide into loaves place on a buttered baking sheet glaze with egg white and bake quickly for five to ten minutes
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